Digital History

  • New Year, Fresh Look

    Mark Philip Bradley, Manuel Martinez Alvarenga, Marlena Boswell, Isti Bhattacharya, Miguel Cruz-Díaz, Justin Hawkins, Brian Quinn, and Thomas Stephens | Feb 23, 2022

    The latest issue of the journal has been completely redesigned and introduces the AHR History Lab.
  • When the Birds Go Silent

    Manuel Martinez Alvarenga, Marlena Boswell, Isti Bhattacharya, Miguel Cruz-Díaz, Justin Hawkins, Brian Quinn, and Thomas Stephens | Nov 24, 2021

    The latest issue of the AHR features articles on environmental history, African history, and digital history, among other topics.
  • A Glimpse Behind the Curtain

    Hayley R. Bowman | Jul 29, 2021

    Podcasts offer an innovative pedagogical tool, capable of collapsing space and time in a way that reading, writing, and even attending a lecture cannot.
  • What’s Next for Blogging as Public Engagement?

    Bobby Cervantes | Jul 28, 2021

    Bobby Cervantes reflects on the flourishing history blogs that are connecting academic historians to public audiences.
  • Public History in the Wild

    Rebecca S. Wingo and Lindsey Passenger Wieck | Jul 26, 2021

    When two historians swapped a syllabus over multiple semesters, it improved both the assignments and student experience.
  • What Story Do You Want to Tell?

    Hayley R. Bowman | Jul 8, 2021

    Shifting from "Who will care?" to "What's the story?" helped one graduate student center storytelling in her work.
  • Meet the 2021 Perspectives Daily Summer Columnists

    Laura Ansley | Jun 7, 2021

    Introducing the three graduate students who will write about narrative and podcasts, the relationship between history and journalism, and the history of plant disease.
  • Reel or Unreal History

    Julianne Johnson | May 19, 2021

    Newsreels, a uniquely 20th-century format, can be a powerful tool for instructors looking to engage students in critical analysis and build media literacy.
  • Keeping It Real

    Abe Gibson | May 17, 2021

    How can historians combat "deepfakes," videos altered to show hyper-realistic people saying or doing things they never actually said or did?
  • History Podcasting Laid Bare

    Laura Ansley | Apr 14, 2021

    How three historians worked with major outlets in the podcasting world to bring the salacious history of the Chippendales male...

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